Buzz Out Loud Podcast

Vic the Texas Rancher pilot wrote in, but somehow in the twisted mind of Molly Wood his name became Texas Ranger Panda. And now she can't stop laughing at the cute ranger panda writing in about HD makeup. Which Natali thinks is a conspiracy. We also review the DTV transition and help you get a contract-free iPhone.

EPISODE 997

The day after the U.S. DTV transition
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10264369-94.html

When’s your country switching?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/us-declares-victory-as-dtv-transition-goes-rather-smoothly.ars

Bug in Apple store helps you get iPhone at subsidized price
http://www.hitb.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=31783

Google Voice number portability
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/14/google-voices-secret-weapon-number-portability/

Antipiracy music deal for Virgin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8100394.stm

Bing filters porn now
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-10264128-238.html

Microsoft donates meals for IE 8
http://gizmodo.com/5290118/microsoft-donates-eight-meals-for-each-internet-explorer-8-download

Microsoft wants to rate your outfits
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/14/0118200/Microsoft-Seeking-Hot-Or-Not-Patent
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=“20090150203″.PGNR.&OS=DN/20090150203&RS=DN/20090150203

Dell has now made $3 million on Twitter
http://www.crn.com/hardware/217800984;jsessionid=L40ST4KXQDKDOQSNDLOSKHSCJUNN2JVN

Open source car--20 year lease, free fuel for life
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/13/0315221/Open-Source-Car-mdash-20-Year-Lease-Free-Fuel-For-Life

Twitter from a Commodore 64
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/14/0218212/A-Twitter-Client-For-the-Commodore-64

VOICEMAIL
Randy in Colorado on Microsoft bundling

E-MAIL
hi there,

i’ve been a long time user of the cnet website and i practically live
off cnet tv. anyway so i decided to build myself a cnet toolbar
because i use cnet so much. basically its a series of shortcuts to the
different parts of the cnet website such as the different topics
(apple news, business news etc) and of course cnet tv. it also has a
google search added in. basically i used the google toolbar ever since
it was launched but this now allows me to remove that toolbar and
incorporate my searches and cnet together into a more… personal
toolbar.

anyway i thought why be greedy! haha… so if you guys are interested
you should check it out. its completely spyware free etc (there are
some other major networks that use the same company (espn toolbars etc)

this is the cnet one i made.

http://cnetcommunity.ourtoolbar.com/

it works on internet explorer (windows) and on firefox (windows & mac)

if you like it would you mind posting it to the blog or mentioning it
on cnet tv to promote it. maybe others would like it…

although if what i have made is illegal please let me know and i’ll
delete it asap or just use it for myself.

thanks for your time, hope you like it!

regards

ross canpolat
ireland

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Hi Natali,

Just thought you would get a kick out of this… Turns out they really were cooking wooly mammoths!

http://www.discoveryon.info/2009/06/worlds-oldest-barbecue.html

Love. The. Show.

- Enderpanda

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Buzzards,
Wait,wait…what? Did Tom say Blueray makeup? Is there a Blueray vs.
HD makeup war going on? Is Blueray makeup technically better but way
more expensive than HD makeup? To win this battle are these makeup
manufacturers going to have to buy out the studios? Maybe they will
have to go straight to the actors with an ad campaign. I heard that
Jason already has a Blueray makeup only clause in his contract.
Could you guys do a comparison episode where you all have Blueray
makeup on one side and HD makeup on the other? You could call it the
“Let that be your last battle” episode. (Star Trek reference. See
wikipedia. )
Love the show.

Vic the Texas Rancher Pilot

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Hey Buzz Crew again,

Can you help me here regarding the facebook username. I really wanted to get http://www.facebook.com/kaiser but someone also named Kaiser got it before I did, so I got http://www.facebook.com/kaiserf . after signing up my username I immediately went to http://www.facebook.com/kaiser to see who beat me to getting the username. Realizing that he was from the other side of the world, there’s really nothing I can do about it, besides facebook doesn’t allow username change. I just noticed something strange. After a few minutes, I went back to the guys profile and instead of getting the guys page, i got this

The page you requested was not found.
You may have clicked an expired link or mistyped the address. Some web addresses are case sensitive.
Return home
Go back to the previous page

What happened here? Did Facebook remove him the rights of getting that name? Can I still get it?

Just sharing…

Kaiser

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1000th episode is next week, thanks for all your submissions. Don’t miss the big show Thursday June 18th at the normal time and in the normal feeds live at 10:30 AM Pacific http://www.cnet.com/live

1000th episode meetup in San Francisco: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113374732587

Send us buzz at buzz@cnet.com or call us at 1-800-616-CNET (2638)

Playboy opens up its back catalog of magazines to the Internet for free, and we're all at a loss of words. Tread lightly, buzz brigade. Also, IE8 users are downgrading to IE7 after only one weekend of use. Something smells Vista-ee in here.

Episode 936

Someone pays: Sony charges publishers for PS3 bandwidth
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/03/someone-pays-sony-charges-publishers-for-ps3-bandwidth.ars

IE 8 users downgrading to IE 7
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/browsers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216200082&subSection=News

Kindle firmware update
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10200969-1.html

Skype office phone
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10201830-92.html

Universal Remote’s days are numbered http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/22/2126206

Dell is dull: Smartphone canceled for lack of interest
http://www.pcworld.com/article/161755/dell_is_dull_smartphone_canceled_for_lack_of_interest.html

Salesforce.com teams up with Twitter for customer service
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2238979/salesforce-pairs-twitter

PC World writer ludicrously misinterprets the deal
http://www.pcworld.com/article/161757/salesforce_tweets_a_bit_too_loudly.html

Kodak Gallery’s new TOS requires minimum yearly purchase or else they’ll delete your photos
http://www.kodakgallery.com/TermsOfService.jsp?cm_mmc=email-_-crm_20090313_tos_test_v6-_-core-_-terms_service&sourceid=912127311103&offer=
http://db.tidbits.com/article/10156

Playboy online
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2343502,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121

Is “E74″ the Xbox 360’s new Red Ring of Death?
http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/is-quot-e74-quot-the-xbox-360-s-new-red-ring-of-death-/1299076
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/19/joystiq-survey-xbox-360-e74-errors-on-the-rise-since-nxe/

New Zealand government throws out section 92A (the blackout protest provision)
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/61A3AA59631F4CB7CC25758200175796

Update on space bat
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=7146764

Voice mail
Kevin
iPhone evidence?

Derek
The truth about micropayments

E-mail
Regarding the gentleman who left a voicemail on Friday’s podcast wanting to know why Apple is charging ten dollars for a firmware upgrade to the iPod Touch, why don’t they just give it away for free, I’d like to propose the following theory:

Apple is a company.
Companies make products.
More often than not, they sell these products to consumers for money.

Now here’s the beauty of it. You don’t have to BUY the product. If you’re happy with your iPod Touch as is (after all, you liked it enough to buy it in the first place, didn’t you?) than don’t pay the ten dollars, and continue to enjoy your device! If you’d like the fancy new bells and whistles, then pony up the ten bucks. Because the real question could very well be, “Why isn’t Apple charging MORE for their firmware upgrade?” In fact, they could be charging THIRTY dollars, and they’d be well within their rights to do so. That’s the beauty of this capitalist society we live in. And speaking of which, I know that times are tough right now, but really? It’s ten dollars. You’re going to be Oh-Kay.

And to Molly, who feels that Apple shouldn’t even charge for updates to OSX because they are essentially “service packs”– I believe that Microsoft is hard at work on a “service pack” to Window’s Vista, called Windows 7. And I’m pretty sure they’re going to charge for THAT.

Love the show.

Mike

EPISODE 898

Microsoft releases IE 8 browser
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7852340.stm
http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-10150516-12.html

Senate passes bill to delay digital TV switch
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601984.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10150551-38.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hlGcM0ZxYV5dDtZR_9xfCPZnkFaAD95T4LV80

New law will require camera phones to “click”
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-414
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F26%2F1846209

Apple awarded key iPhone multitouch patent
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10150436-37.html

Xerox had sued Palm over patent infringement that started in 1997 and lasted 9 years
http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/8696/palm-and-xerox-settle-graffiti-dispute/

Kindle 2???
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/27/amazon-press-conference-next-monday-i-can-haz-kindle-too/

Boeing: We zapped a UAV with a laser
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10150136-76.html

Book of Wikipedia on Wikipedia
http://mashable.com/2009/01/27/wikipedia-missing-manual/

YouTube users caught in Warner Music spat
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10150588-93.html

Wii Channel for doctor advice
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/wii-check-up-channel-will-link-you-to-health-professionals-dr/

Guitar Hero as text adventure
http://www.offworld.com/2009/01/champion-of-guitars-text-adven.html

VOICEMAIL
Anonymous
Internet more of a necessity than TV

Josh in Salt lake
Is T-Mobile G1 a precursor to 3G in more cities

Greg in London
What’s this about a Gdrive?
http://mashable.com/2009/01/26/google-gdrive/

E-MAIL
Hi Buzz Crew, this is Chris from Michigan. I’ve been following this story about Fallout 3, and it seems the problem has more to do with a Downloadable Content exclusivity deal with Microsoft than a feud with Sony. The major issue stems from the fact that the game ends, and you must go back to a previous save to continue with any side missions. This is fixed with new DLC, but that happens to be exclusive. The end-game continuing feature may come in a later patch to the PS3 or the DLC may be only a timed exclusive, but PS3 owners still may get this at a later time. Check out this 1up story for details:
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3172447

Thanks a lot and love the show!

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Hi buzz!
Instead of earthquake or something to do with 3 miles. The black hole will cause the fabric of space to rotate with it because of its intense gravity field. This means that people/things around it could possibly fell into this “orbit” and reach faster than light speed! If they cannot stop they rotation, they could potentially travel back in time so far that they never existed.

See, not painful!

Love the show,

Ultimatebuster

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Guys,

I wanted to share this story, because I LOLed like both laughing and doing things out loud was going out of fashion.

http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-sun-editor-reckons-quality-trumps-recession-online-threat/

To give America the background, The Sun is a mainstream, paid-for daily newspaper. As Paid Content points out, this “quality” paper, which features a naked girl every day on page three, has come out with headlines like “UP YOURS DELORS” (in reference to Jacques Delors) and “IT’S PADDY PANTSDOWN” (in reference to Paddy Ashdown, a British politician).

Incidentally, today’s headline is ‘CHEEKY STARS OGLE BIG BOOBS’.

Nate

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Hi BOL,

Actually Saint-Petersburg calling

Just wanted to add 2 kopeks to your discussion regarding Russian National operation system in 896 podcast.

It’s only a project for now and president should decide whether to fund it or not. But many government structures already said that they would really want to have a system that they could control (in terms of development) because they have a lot of requirements (this system should be compatible with some Russian military hardware for instance) and that there is no system on the market that meets these requirements. That’s why they decided to launch such a project. Microsoft is also involved into these negotiations, but Microsoft think that we should “properly” integrate systems which are currently available on the market, so they don’t want to develop anything new, I think that with such opinion they will have to step out of this affair, because I doubt that Bill Gates ever knew something about Russian military systems

With respect to IT and Russian government at all. I think this will be interesting for you, because you like to discuss IT in Whitehouse. So here some fact about our president and Kremlin

http://www.kremlin.ru

First of all our president has a videoblog Видеоблог Дмитрия Медведева , they also added ability to add comments to president’s posts, they said that some comments and their authors were filtered but most of them are in the blog right now. We don’t know whether president will reply on some comments or not, but that’s still a huge step for our president and his administration.

With respect to president’s PC:

1. looks like he likes Macbooks

2. But as a work PC he uses Windows XP and probably some super-secret military OS. Isn’t it difficult to switch from aple to microsoft and then to this freaky device ? Probably because of that they want a National OS.

Love the show. Thanks.
Sergey.

EPISODE 873

Major security alert for Microsoft Internet Explorer
http://www.obsessable.com/news/2008/12/16/major-security-alert-for-microsoft-internet-explorer/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/16/AR2008121601022.html
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/16/1319217

Apple will unveil Netbooks next month, says analyst
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9123578&intsrc=news_ts_head

New Mac mini to be announced at Macworld San Francisco 2009?
http://www.obsessable.com/news/2008/12/16/new-mac-mini-to-be-announced-at-macworld-san-francisco-2009/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/155554/latest_mac_rumors_netbooks_and_new_mac_minis.html

Report: Mac desktop sales hit a slowdown
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10123934-37.html
http://www.betanews.com/article/Analysts_PC_growth_rate_eclipses_Macs_in_November/1229442244

iPhone 3G unlocked by iPhone Dev-Team, codenamed “yellowsn0w”
http://www.obsessable.com/news/2008/12/16/iphone-3g-unlocked-by-iphone-dev-team-codenamed-yellowsn0w/
http://www.macworld.com/article/137576/2008/12/iphone3g_unlocked.html

Apple kills iPhone app, claiming API violation
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10123619-37.html

Twitter has made Dell $1 million in revenue
http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/15/twitter-has-made-dell-1-million-in-revenue/

So much for the digital audio revolution: Consumers are listening less
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20081210005653&newsLang=en

Legal papers served via Facebook
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7785004.stm

Japanese billboards are watching back
http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/index.php?q=article/270798/japanese_billboards_watching_back&fp=&fpid=

VOICEMAIL
Shane from Las Vegas: Photosynth is so … use … ful?

E-MAIL
Seems Monster Cable is letting the Monster Mini Golf off “easy” with a settlement - Monster Mini Golf can continue to use “Monster” as long as they pay Monster Cable $100 a month. Monster Cable will then in turn donate the money to a charity. The details are up on the site http://monsterminigolftruth.com/

Be sure to scroll down about a few pages to enjoy the founder of Monster Cable trying to justify their legal target practice.

(Pulled this from: http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/monster-cable-still-evil-will-allow-monster-mini-golf-to-exist/)

smikwily

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http://alt1040.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/chromefirefox.jpg

Chrome replaced Firefox in Google Pack. FF is in trouble! It’s Yahoo! and Microsoft all over again…

Paco

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Walkstation - Not a Gym Car but a Gym Station

Run while you work.
http://store.steelcase.com/go/products/detail/A7T/

Brad

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Hey Buzz Crew,
Just wanted to comment on yesterday’s story on Online Voting in
Estonia. We have a limited version of this in Municipal Elections
this past October. You got a card with a code on it, had to
authenticate using your Birthday and where allowed to vote. However,
there where two problems with this. First, Online voting was only
allowed on days of Advance Polls, which fell on the two Saturday’s
before the election. Secondly, apparently they sent out cards to
people who had been deceased, and some people received more than one
card. So it’s not without it’s glitches. Now, if we could just move
Online voting to the Provincial and Federal levels.
Love the Show,
Nathaniel, the IT Student
Nova Scotia, Canada

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The sex vs. the Internet seems a little silly because for many guys their sex life is the Internet.
Great show,
Matt
P.S. Natali is awesome.

EPISODE 800

Apple Store in Hawaii still not open
http://www.ifoapplestore.com/db/2008/08/23/hawaiian-spirits-dictate-storefront-materials/

Meet Chrome, Google’s shiny new browser
http://news.cnet.com/Meet-Chrome%2C-Googles-shiny-new-browser/2009-1032_3-6246210.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10030025-2.html
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-02-n72.html

Apple makes September 9 iPod event official
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10030344-37.html

Is Cuil killing Web sites?
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/01/is-cuil-killing-websites/

IE8 Beta 2 fatter than Firefox and XP
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/09/02/1418252.shtml

Lenovo won’t refund the Windows tax without an NDA
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080831-lenovo-wont-refund-the-windows-tax-without-an-nda.html

Spore to finally appear later this week
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/02/spore-finally-appear-later
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122031227102788791.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Nokia ‘Comes With Music’ to offer ‘Free’ music to cell phone subscribers
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/09/nokia-comes-wit.html

Ultrasound to give feel to games
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7593444.stm

Is technology making it harder to be unfaithful?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10029985-71.html

Shower TV!
http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/02/sony-floats-waterproof-bravia-xdv-w600-1-seg-tv-for-the-bath/

VOICE MAIL

Jim from London
About bandwidth caps.

Bill
An example of an album as a single file.

E-MAIL

Josh Denver wasn’t very far off, in fact BMW developed a racecar that runs on the same principal. It was super fast setting 9 speed records and its only byproduct was water. It was called the BMW H2R. Here is the the Wikipedia article link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_H2R

Google it if you have any other questions

Comcast’s limits:

Take 250GB and divide by thirty (8.3GB daily cap), 347MB hourly cap, 5.7 meg per minute, and 96k per second. The key question is, “What applications do I run that consume 100kpbs per second?” In a family of five, here’s the math:

Son 8 - Club Penguin
Daughter 11- Homework, AIM chat
Daughter 4 - iTunes video
Wife - Web browsing/online chat, Internet radio
Me - Buzz out Loud, Skype, Adium, Transmission, Slingbox, Pandora

OK, maybe we ought to switch off our router at night… that would double our numbers, but let’s face it, the real problem is if you need to run something that persistently consumes bandwidth: Torrents & Persistent Music & Video connections are still the big issue. Who’s kidding who?

Glad I’m on Time Warner...so far, we’re safe, for another five minutes. Even so, I know we all know they’re shaping our traffic, it’s just a matter of how sneaky they are at it.

Love the show,

Ernest

I am sure that this is beat to death but I am one of the few who may be affected by this new cap. My husbands employer just allowed him to work at home as a software developer. He VPNs everyday for 8-to-9 hours into his works network. I myself work from home as a writer for a daily news blog and maintain a personal blog where I upload pictures and videos daily. My husband and I do online gaming at night, watch Hulu, just browsing, and so on. My children are home schooled and we use an online learning program and lots of Web sites as educational resources. We even use VoIP for our phone! We pay for the most expensive Comcast plan at $75/month. It was advertised as a “gaming and entertainment plan”. So much for that. If we get booted from Comcast our only choice is 1.5MB DSL thru Fairpoint. Sounds ridiculous but we may have to buy a new house just to get the Internet we need.

-kate

Hey JaMoTo,

Quick update on your analysts site, I settled with NTT DoCoMo. After having a few e-mail discussions with DoCoMo, they eventually told me it was a mistake to send me that e-mail, and the person who sent the e-mail misunderstood what causes infringement on there copyright! Also you can now access the site from a new URL, Jamotoanalysts Dot Com. Plus the first press release comes out wednesday!

-Hayden

August 31, 1998, is when the very first mp3 player was available:

http://www.teamteabag.com/2008/08/31/retro-computing-corner-the-worlds-first-mp3-player-c-1998/

The mp3 player is now a decade old!

Hi Crew,

Regarding Lloyds "password" saga (BOL 799)--it isn't actually a password, it is a "secret word".

Amongst the many joys of the British banking system, any call to customer service will involve (after a 20 minute wait and multiple choice questions) providing such information as age, date of birth, inside trouser (pant?) measurement, and so on, and finally the Secret Word.

From this word you are asked to provide, for example, the first and third letter--all this is to supposedly prove you are you and no one else, said word is not part of any login system and is purely for human consumption.

Finally--Top Gear and the i-pod pronunciation, that is just James May aka Captain Slow, he has made it into the 21st Century, but only just.

Regards

Mike Lumley
Torquay U.K.

While listening to episode 797 the superbug of piracy, you guys were talking about spreading the rumor about The Beatles coming to itunes September 9, well I just wanted to let that the other day at work (I work at Best Buy…… yeah Best Buy, who buy the way are proud sponsors of CNET TV just wanted to throw that in there). I informed a friend of mine (who is also a BOL fan), that The Beatles were coming to itunes September 9 and he was all like REALLY!!!!!!!!! (all excite) and I was like no….. it’s just a rumor that Molly and the guys from BOL are spreading, and he than just started laughing, than later in the day when I was sitting in the lunch room talking with a bunch of other staff, Pat walked in and said “So Nicole did you hear that The Beatles are coming to iTunes September 9” everyone in the room was like really…….and I was like ya didn’t you hear. It was a super funny moment anyways LOVE THE SHOW.

Nicole Drummond
just another BOL fan

EPISODE 799

Comcast puts a cap on Net usage
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/08/25/daily35.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10028506-2.html
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-comcast-to-roll-out-monthly-usage-cap/

Kaminsky DNS bug claimed fixed by 1-character patch
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/29/127210

Microsoft warns of IE8 lock-in with XP SP3
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9113739

No new Kindle this year
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007628.html

Yahoo kills their social network
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10028716-36.html

Psychologist invents new uber-wiki
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/29/mememoir_uber_wiki_announced/

Android developer challenge winners announced
http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/

Alphabet decides who gets most spam
http://www.pcworld.com/article/150464/alphabet_decides_who_gets_most_spam.html

Coca-Cola readying 100-flavor soda fountains
http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/29/coca-cola-readying-100-flavor-soda-fountains/

Voice mail

Camilla
Rant of the week.

Josh Denver
So… About the hydrogen…. Seriously.

RogueTess
Why water is different than OS X

E-mail

Hey Guys,

About the story in 798 - artists not selling their music on iTunes because of lack of an album only option - I disagree with the stance that this purely the record labels trying to exert more control. In the Ars Technica piece you will notice the it says Kid Rock decided to pull out of iTunes not his label. I’m assuming that this decision is because it’s a concept record, which is something of a lost art these days.

I work on three music projects in which I write, produce, and release all the music myself through Tunecore. While I love the service and it’s very convenient to release to iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody and others, I find it to be a rather frustrating process to figure how to release our music in that i write in terms of a concept album and to break it up is difficult decision to make because you feel like you are putting something out there that is out of context. What ultimately I decided to do is to use iTunes to release compilations containing songs from all three projects and use Amazon mp3 the sell them as an album only, as you failed to mention or you didn’t know Amazon does offer this option.

I leave you with this if Pink Floyd released the The Wall today would have gained as much acclaim, attention and influence on later bands as it did in 1980 when it was released or would be just about Another Brick in The Wall and Comfortably Numb.

Great show.

Eric - DC, Soon to be back in Austin

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Buzz clique,

It appears in episode 798 you have finally addressed one of the fundamental issues that have divided our two nations for decades. I thought I’d set you straight as to what the deal with ‘pants’ is.

There’s a reason why pants is a British adjective for something that is not good. This is because when we use the word pants we don’t think of a pair of well cut, nice fitting khakis from Gap, but rather a pair of sweaty, skid marked, discarded undercrackers.

The American use of pants in place of trousers has always bothered me slightly, but not as much as the over pronunciation of the letter I. I will not be going to EYEraq, taking antEYE-depressants or installing Norton AntEYE-virus. Pretty sure you guys aren’t guilty of this one though. Right on, and more power to you.

Love the show, and what the frack is a Kindle?

Greg, London

P.S. Caprica? WICKED!

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Buzz Fellows,

I simply cannot believe that the circumstances behind the situation of the Pants story (from episode 798) exist at all! Everyone knows (or, apperantly they don’t!) that you never, ever store customer’s actual (plain-text) passwords ANYWHERE.

The standard practice is to use a Hashing algorithm to create a unique and one-way translation of the user’s password into a key. This key cannot be reverse engineered to obtain the original password, but the same password will always generate the same key. So, when you store or check a user’s password, you hash whatever they enter and compare the key to the key you have in your database.

If you store plain-text passwords, as Lloyds TSB clearly does, then you run the HUGE security risk of providing a malicious attacker with thousands of users’ real passwords, which could be used immediately to log into their accounts. This is all a story within itself BEFORE we even get to the fact that someone felt the need to change a user’s password!

When I read “In these cases an advisor can read the full password.”, I nearly had a heart attack.

~EndangeredMassa

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hey buzz crew

i have been waiting to hear about a solution to the firefox flash video issue, as it affects me all the time!
i mostly have 15-20 tabs open when browsing.. maybe that does have something to do with it?

in the mean time, i’ve found that i can watch flash video in firefox ( 2 / 3 ) without the issues by using the ‘ietab’ extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

So, everyone can use this while they wait for adobe and mozilla to work it out!

Cheers

Aladar

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I was the person who created the JaMoTo Analysts site. I don’t know if you noticed, but the logo I used was the NTT DoCoMo (The Japanese cell phone carrier) logo, I changed the logo around a little bit and added some effects, but the next day I got an email form DoCoMo asking from me to take down the logo! I don’t even know how they saw the page so fast! The email said that the DoCoMo logo is there property and that it should not be used or altered at all, and that if I don’t take down the logo it could lead to quote “LEGAL ACTION”! My first thought was to take down the logo, but should I? Do I have the right to use a heavly altered logo on the site. I have no intention of making money off the site, I am not selling a product or anything. I have no idea what to do!

-Hayden

EPISODE 798

IE 8 beta gives other browsers a run for their money
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10027345-83.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7585741.stm

State cannot force removal of SSNs from privacy advocate’s site
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/08/28/1536249.shtml

Music labels rethink iTunes, again; same old gripe of album vs singles
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-music-labels-rethink-itunes-again-same-old-gripe-of-album-vs-singles/

“Galactica” proves the ratings system is dead
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26396271/

Veoh defeats copyright infringement lawsuit
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10027926-93.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121989796262379185.html
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/8/a-victory-for-video-sites-court-grants-veoh-its-dmca-defense-in-copyright-case

YouTube finally figures out how to make money: Big ads on its home page
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/8/youtube-finally-figures-out-how-to-make-money-big-ads-on-its-homepage

Report: AT&T source explains exact technical details of iPhone 3G problems - Thanks Jay!
http://www.dailytech.com/Report+ATT+Source+Explains+Exact+Technical+Details+of+iPhone+3G+Probems/article12797.htm

Why can’t they fix the Flash/Firefox bug?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10027752-2.html

Aaron Sorkin creates Facebook page, writing Facebook movie
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/08/confirmed_aaron_sorkin_creates.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7585632.stm

Hackers prepare supermarket sweep
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7584258.stm

Man’s ‘pants’ password is changed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/shropshire/7585098.stm

Voice mail

Josh in Denver
Hydrogen-powered cars.

Anonymous Analyst
Made a site.

E-mail

Hey BOL Crew,
I think that Psystar’s counter-suit against Apple, saying that they
violated anti-trust laws, is completely bogus. It’s as if someone were
to sue Dasani saying that they are violating anti-trust laws by
packaging water in the specific Dasani bottle. Now, if the consumer
wants to put the water from the Dasani bottle into their own - they
can. Just like the OSx86 project. Now, if you were to sell Dasani
water in your own bottle, it’s obvious that you are ripping of Dasani.
It’s the same situation with Apple v Psystar. If Psystar wins, it’s
like allowing the common people to make Apple’s company decisions.

-John

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Hey Guys,

On 797, you briefly mentioned the use of the letter “Y” and how it
began with Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

I’m a little confused… Are you saying that shows didn’t commonly
exist prior to Buffy with “Y”s at the end, or that “Buffy” was
originally “Buff The Vampire Slayer,” but they added the “Y” to give
it the secret Whedon sauce of success?

It sounded like there was a reasoning behind the “Y” but you didn’t
really explain. Please do.

Tim
St. Louis, Mo.

P.S. Was Molly originally “Moll” before the “Y” craze?

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Hey hey TMJ,

I’m fully not expecting this to be on the podcast tomorrow, but wanted to share my fangirl love for you guys. At 3 different points in podcast 797 I was talking back to you guys while driving home from work!

1. Hey Tom, #800 won’t be on Monday, but on Tuesday, unless you guys are podcasting on Labor Day
2. Hey Molly, answering the phone in Japanese isn’t “konichiwa” (although that is technically “hello”), but “moshi moshi”. As a japanophile, I thought you’d know that one!
3. Hey Jason, when you asked “are you ready for some soft rock!” I was waiting for Johnathan Coulton’s “Soft Rocked by Me” from his Thing a Week collection: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2006/06/02/thing-a-week-35-soft-rocked-by-me/

PS Jason, how’s your DirecTV?

Love you guys!
Amy in the East Bay

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Hey Buzz Crew,
I was just listening to episode #797 , and the near Molly rant about
Apple pulling apps form the App Store made me fire up the old
Powerbook, put the baby in the swing and give you my two cents. The
way I see it is that Apple built the sandbox, ordered the sand, and
even made sure the dumb truck did not wreck their yard. Now all they
are trying to do is get the cat poop out the it. I guess what I’m
trying to say is that I dont see any difference between Apple pulling
apps, for what ever reason, even for no reason at all. And those signs
you see that every mom and pop restaurant that state ” We reserve the
right refuse service to anyone”. Is Apple being a tool do doing this,
yes? But its still their sandbox.

Love the show,
Never seen a kindle in the wild,

Mark-o from Portland

Rumor has it that there will be code details about OS X 10.6 at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference next week. Bold prediction, considering it's a developer's conference. Geniuses. Now, what cat to name it after? Also, Bill Gates gives his last speech on the road to his nearly-full-time-job-retirement; Oklahoma City has a sweet Wi-Fi mesh network that you can't use (unless the password is "password"); and you can now get your Outlook e-mail on an LG enV(2).

Episode 738

Mac OS 10.6 debuting next week?
http://gizmodo.com/5012955/mac-os-106-debuting-next-week

Full-featured IE 8 coming in August
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0337111520080603

Microsoft reports security problem with Apple’s Safari
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_reports_security_problem_with_Apples_Safari/1212510348

Firefox 3 is still a memory hog
http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/firefox-3-is-still-a-memory-hog/

Bill Gates’s last speech
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/03/2038259

Verizon Wireless lets you get corporate e-mail without a smartphone
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9959167-1.html

Oklahoma City claims world’s largest municipal Wi-Fi mesh network, leaves public out
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/04/oklahoma-city-claims-worlds-largest-municipal-wifi-mesh-network/

‘Call of Duty 4′ hits 10 million units sold
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-9959146-52.html

Flip Video’s mighty Mino
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9958989-7.html

NASA toilet might force emergency evacuation
http://gizmodo.com/5012730/nasa-toilet-might-force-emergency-evacuation

Voice mail

John the Bomb Maker
Here's what I'll do with metered bandwidth.

Sean
Better idea for the movie studios

Lun
About those MP3 kiosks

E-mail

Metered bandwidth

Hey BuzzCrew,

On Episode 737, you were talking about metered bandwidth and not knowing
how much bandwidth you use, and 40GB not being good/large enough.

Now Tom, you were talking about having a PS3 or whatever, and using up
all your bandwidth. Now, in my house, we have 3 laptops, a PS3, a Wii,
and I have about 15 podcasts that I listen to. And we only have a 12GB
limit, which we rarely go over, I think once. Ever. (with
1.5MBps/512Kbps). I honestly would not know what I would do with 40GB.
Admittedly, I’m not a torrent user, nor do I download or stream a lot of
video, but I still think 40GB is heaps! Our ISP (and every other one
that I know of in Australia) has a page you can log in to and check your
usage, over 24 hours, weekly, and the overall month. Another thing is
that most ISPs will send you an e-mail when you’re approaching your
limit, so you have some kind of warning that you’re getting close. I
have to say, I think you’re all making a big deal out of something that
won’t make much of a difference to the average user.

Love the show!

Dave,
Melbourne, Australia
aka DaveBinM

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5GB cap?

MoJaTo,

Can you imagine what would happen if you installed an SP1 version of
Windows XP?! You’d blow half of your cap just getting your updates! I
predict this trial in Texas will be a colossal failure (unless they’re
not testing the cap size itself, but the metering method they’re using).

Ethan
Minneapolis

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Meter this!

Hey Tom, Molly, and YOU (Jason!),

This whole issue of metering my bandwidth really doesn’t scare me. My
neighbors haven’t secured their wifi connections yet, and it’s not that
difficult to circumvent WEP security so if I hit my wall, I’ll start
hittin’ someone elses! God Bless you Comcast, you hot sexy waste of
time! Have a good day.

Sincerely,
Justin
Washington, DC

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Whoops! Eff article I used

Sorry about that, It’s in my blog post but it didn’t copy over to the
email…

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/06/prince-issues-one-takedown-too-many

if you haven’t sent out the show notes yet, or can edit them, that was
the one I was talking about.

…or dont’ worry about it.

Frank J. M. Lattuca, Esq.

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Tully’s has free Wifi - you get 24 hours

Yo Buzz Peeps!
Looonng time listener. Big time fan.
So in listening to BOL737 you talked about Starbucks giving you 2 hrs of
free wifi. But you have to use it all at once. And you also have to
get their spam in order to use it. Yea…
Well, here in Seattle, the Tully’s coffee shops offer free wifi all day
(24rh limit) with no sign up, no spam, and you don’t have to use the
hours all at once. All you have to do is agree to their terms upon
logging on to their network (standard stuff).
Besides, their coffees and teas are far superior to Starbuck’s. Plus
they use more fair trade coffees.
Keep on Buzzin’

Peace,
Vic the Video Game Artist

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BOL in a Yahoo crossword?

I’m positive this is one of those things you’ll get a million emails
about (spam spam spam spam), but I was killing time before going into
work today and did a quick Yahoo crossword, and number 10 Down was “Buzz
Out Loud podcast producer”! Let’s see…four letters…MOL-E? TOM-M?
JY-SN? JMTO? No! CNET! Have you finally arrived in the mainstream of
social consciousness if you find yourself in a crossword?

Stewart
In North Hollywood